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HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison built in 1850 and located in Coburg, Victoria. The prison officially closed on May 1, 1997. Coburg is a city located on the Itz River in Bavaria, Germany. ... Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... Year 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1000x1217, 904 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Coburg, Victoria HM Prison Pentridge User:Melburnian Australian non-residential architectural styles Metadata This file contains additional information... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1000x1217, 904 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Coburg, Victoria HM Prison Pentridge User:Melburnian Australian non-residential architectural styles Metadata This file contains additional information... Year 1850 (MDCCCL) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Coburg is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Capital Melbourne Government Const. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Pentridge was often known by the nickname The Bluestone College. The prison has since been partly demolished to make way for a housing development. The front gate area remains. While the wall around the back has been lowered to a more friendly level for the new homes.

The 1994 Australian film Everynight ... Everynight details prison life inside Pentridge's H Division. 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Everynight . ...

Divisions

The prison was split into many divisions, named using letters of the alphabet.

• A - short and long-term prisoners of good behavior
• B - long-term prisoners with behavior problems
• D - remand prisoners
• E - similar to “A”
• F - remand and short-term
• G - psychiatric problems
• H - high security, discipline and protection
• J - long-term with record of good behavior
• Jika Jika - maximum security risk and for protection, later renamed to K Division

Jika Jika high security unit

The Jika Jika exercise yard. The enclosed roof was to avoid attempts to escape by helicopter

Jika Jika was the name of a 'gaol within a gaol' maximum security section, designed to house Victoria's hardest and longest serving prisoners. It was awarded the 'Excellence in Concrete Award' by the Concrete Institute of Australia before being closed in the middle of controversy after the deaths of five prisoners in 1987. Jika Jika Pentridge File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Jika Jika Pentridge File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The design of Jika Jika was based on the idea of six separate units at the end of radiating spines. The unit comprised electronic doors, closed-circuit TV and remote locking, designed to keep staff costs to a minimum and security to a maximum. The furnishings were sparse and prisoners exercised in aviary-like escape proof yards.

In 1983 four prisoners escaped from ‘escape proof’ Jika Jika. When two prison officers were disciplined in relation to the Jika Jika escape a weeklong strike occurred.

1987 Jika Jika prison fire

In a protest initiated by conditions in Jika Jika, inmates Robert Wright, Jimmy Loughnan, Arthur Gallagher, David McGauley, Ricky Morris from 1 side of the unit and Craig 'Slim' Minogue and 3 other inmates on the other side of them sealed off their section doors with a tennis net. Mattresses and other bedding were then stacked against the doors. The windows in the day room were then covered with paper so the prison officers couldn't identify which prisoners caused the ensuing damage. Craig W. J. Minogue is an Australian prisoner, convicted for the 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on March 27, 1986. ...

Plumbing was then torn from the walls in the cells to enable the prisoners to breathe for when the fire was started, as Jika Jika was completely free of any fresh air whatsoever. It was a climate controlled division.

In spite of the men's attempts to avoid the toxic black smoke by breathing through the plumbing, convicted Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue and 3 other inmates were survivors of the fire. The Russell Street Bombing is the name given to a tragedy that occurred at 1pm on March 27, 1986 when a stolen 1979 Holden Commodore left parked outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, exploded. ... Craig W. J. Minogue is an Australian prisoner, convicted for the 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on March 27, 1986. ...

Attorney General and Minister for Corrections Jim Kennan ordered the closure of the Jika Jika maximum security section of Pentridge Prison immediately after a 1987 riot and fatal fire.

Grave sites

Main article: Ned Kelly

Ned Kelly the day before his execution by hanging. His remains are buried at the former Pentridge Prison site.

The grave site of bushranger Ned Kelly and also Ronald Ryan lies within the former walls of Pentridge Prison. Kelly was executed by hanging at the Melbourne Gaol in 1880 and his remains moved to Pentridge Prison in 1929, after his skeleton was disturbed on April 12, 1929, by workmen constructing the present Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) building. The gravesite, as of 2005, is covered in many weeds and is largely unkept by the developers, who have fenced off the area until a decision is made on its upkeep. Reverend Peter Norden, former prison chaplain at Pentridge Prison is campaigning for the sites restoration. Ned Kelly the day before his execution Edward Ned Kelly (c. ... Ned Kelly the day before execution. ... Ned Kelly the day before execution. ... Ned Kelly the day before his execution Edward Ned Kelly (c. ... Ned Kelly the day before his execution Edward Ned Kelly (c. ... Ronald Joseph Ryan (c. ... // This page is about death by hanging. ... Melbourne Gaol (more commonly known as The Old Melbourne Gaol) is located in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Year 1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (now officially known only as RMIT University), is a university in Melbourne, Australia. ...

Notable prisoners

• Dennis Allen, oldest member of the Pettingill family. (d. 1987)
• Garry David, (d. 1993), also known as Garry Webb, responsible for the Community Protection Act 1990
• Peter Dupas, Australian serial killer
• Christopher Dale Flannery, aka Mr Rent-a-Kill, hitman
• Ned Kelly, bushranger
• Julian Knight, murdered 7 people in the Hoddle Street Massacre
• Eddie Leonski, the Brownout Strangler
• Derryn Hinch, Author and broadcaster
• Clarrie O'Shea, trade unionist
• Craig 'Slim' Minogue, Russell Street Bomber
• John Nicholls, Carlton footballer
• Kevin Murray, Fitzroy footballer, Brownlow Medal winner
• Frank Penhalluriack
• Victor Peirce, member of the Pettingill family, acquitted of the 1988 Walsh Street police shootings. Killed in 2002.
• Harry Power, bushranger
• Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, Author
• Gregory David Roberts, Author of Shantaram, escapee of Pentridge who fled to India
• Ronald Ryan - last person to be executed in Victoria in 1967
• Maxwell Charles Skinner, constant escapee, infamous for commandeering a Coburg Tram in one of his escapes
• Squizzy Taylor, gangster
• Stan Taylor, actor and convicted Russell Street bomber

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Clarence Lyell O’Shea, more commonly known as Clarrie OShea (born 1906), was the Victorian State Secretary of the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees Association who was jailed in 1969 by John Kerr for contempt of the Industrial Court when he disobeyed a court order that his union... Craig W. J. Minogue is an Australian prisoner, convicted for the 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on March 27, 1986. ... The Russell Street Bombing is the name given to a tragedy that occurred at 1pm on March 27, 1986 when a stolen 1979 Holden Commodore left parked outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, exploded. ... John Nicholls (born August 13, 1939) is a former champion Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton Football Club in the 1960s and 1970s. ... 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Victor George Pierce (November 11, 1958 - May 1, 2002), 42, was an infamous Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... The Walsh Street police shootings was the execution style murder of Victoria Police Officers Steven Tynan and Damian Eyre who were gunned down in suburban Walsh Street, South Yarra, Australia on October 12, 1988. ... Harry Power (1819-1891) was an Australian Bushranger. ... Bushrangers were outlaws who used the Australian bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities between committing their robberies, roughly analogous to the British-American highwayman. Their targets often included small-town banks or coach services. ... Mark Brandon Read, also known as Chopper Read and Chopper, is an Australian criminal and published author. ... Gregory David Roberts (born Gregory John Peter Smith June 1952), is a convicted armed robber, former heroin addict, gangster, arms smuggler and author of the bestselling book Shantaram. ... 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Timeline

• 1850's 'F' Division opened
• 1870's 'G' Division opened as an Industrial Reformatory School
• 1894 Female prison at Pentridge ('D' Division)
• 1951 Last woman executed in Australia, Jean Lee is hanged.
• 1967 Last execution in Australia - Ronald Ryan (between 1842 and 1967, 186 prisoners were executed)
• October 1987 - Five prisoners die in a fire in Jika Jika during riots over prison conditions. Craig Minogue and 3 other inmates survived the fire.
• May 1, 1997 - Pentridge Prison is closed.

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External links

• http://www.jikamemorial.com/

References

Prisons in Victoria

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